Mosaic – Montale Errante

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Il viaggiatore metaforico. L'odeporica contemporanea e la scrittura di viaggio nell' opera di Antonio Tabucchi

Travelling is an essential element in every human being’s cultural development, as it favors the encounter with diversity. But in an era such as the global one, in which the world seems to have become a monolithic spatial conglomerate and mass tourism substituted journeys, many wonder whether it is still possible to narrate space. Antonio Tabucchi takes part in this debate with some of his works, which are inspired to trips he did, but he puts them in a dimension which mixes reality and fiction. An example is Donna di Porto Pim. In this textual collage, the traveler fits in a world made of metaphors and becomes a metaphor himself. He represents a journey accomplished through literature, and what has actually been lived mixes with what has been read.

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